Private Quotes

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

We would never comment on private correspondence.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

My life style in a sense is kind of private.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

I would love to do more private concerts.

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

As much as the Democrats try to change the subject, this election will be about Barack Obama, period. Mitt's speech last night hit all the right notes, but this fight is not about him. He's just the vessel. Now the question is, does this guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. who thinks the private sector is doing fine get another four years?

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'

I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?

I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

We are extremely private, and we really got sort of ambushed by the notoriety.

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.